I have configured categories to be displayed by activity:
But Discourse shows at the top a category that was not the one which contains more activity. See screenshot below. Why?
Side question: how to I order subcategories per activity?
AI-generated summary
The discussion revolves around the “Ordering category by activity” feature in Discourse. wlandgraf reports that the feature doesn’t work as expected, with categories not being ordered by the most active ones. simon explains that “ordering by activity” means categories are ordered based on the time of the last topic or post creation, not by the volume of posts. wlandgraf expresses that this isn’t the desired behavior and asks for an option to order categories by “volume” (posts per month or number of posts). simon confirms that such an option doesn’t exist, suggesting a manual workaround using “fixed category positions” for those with a small number of categories.
What Discourse means by ordering by activity is that categories will be ordered based on the time that the last topic or post in the category was created. For example, if a reply is created to a topic in your WEB category, that category should get pushed to the top of the category list.
Subcategories are ordered in the same way. As an example, creating a new topic in my ‘scratch thirteen’ subcategory both pushed ‘scratch thirteen’ to the top of the subcategory list and pushed the ‘scratch’ category to the top of the category list:
Thank you for the explanation. That’s not exactly what I’d want. Is there an option to order categories by “volume” (like, posts per month, or number of posts)?
There isn’t an option to order categories by the number of posts or number of posts per month. If you only have a few categories you could do that manually by selecting the fixed category positions setting an then reordering your categories periodically based on posts per month. That’s probably not an ideal solution for you though.